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A Supplement to the Boys’ Monthly Publication 
“THE TOME” 

By transfer 
The White House 
March 3rd, 1913 











FOOTBALL 


ROM the opening of school in September until its close 
in June, through Fall, Winter and Spring there is always 
something doing in Athletics. Of course, football is the 
great game in the Fall season and more than half the 
school plays it. There were eight elevens last season, 
ranging in weight from ioo to 150 pounds. Tome has always been 
strong in football—the Inter-Scholastic Champion of Maryland for 
seven years. Never has a Tome eleven been beaten by one of equal 
or less weight. Since 1900, out of fifty-eight games Tome has won 
forty-three, scoring over one thousand points to opponents’ two-hundred 
and fifty-three. The school has glorious football traditions and a 
system of play that has proved its worth on many a hard fought field, 
a system that has been built up year by year, pounded out in strenuous 
practice—rain or shine—tried out against all kinds of odds. Although 
the season of ’08 opened with only one veteran back from the great 
’07 eleven and a green team had to be built up about one man, in a 
short season, with a hard schedule, there has never been such football 
enthusiasm in the school, not only the first and second elevens, but 
the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth struggling and pound¬ 
ing away day by day until the final contest, the Saturday before 
Thanksgiving. 





TOME vs. HILL SCHOOL 






PYTHIAN AND OLYMPIAN 
SOCIETIES 


t'VERY boy in the school belongs to one or the other of the two 
rival Athletic Societies; namely, the Pythian and Olympian 
Societies, and as these societies meet in football, baseball, track, basket¬ 
ball, gymnastics and tennis, and as the teams are graded according to 
weight and age, giving everyone a chance at some sport, on some 
team, nearly every boy can manage to represent his society in some¬ 
thing or other during the year. No one need sit on the sidelines vainly 
wishing that he were good enough to make a team; there are so many 
teams and of such varying weights that there is a chance for all. A 
fellow likes to feel that he can count for something in athletics, even 
if he is not good enough to make the first team, and in these Pythian- 
Olympian contests if he scores only one point, even that is important 
because there are so many contests, and because the result is often in 
doubt until the end. In football this season, the first elevens of each 
society played once to a tie, the second elevens played two tie games, 
and the third elevens split even on the two preliminary games. The 
championships sometimes hang by such a slender margin that the effort 
of one boy may turn it to one society or the other. This gives a boy 
something to work for, and make him a factor in the school’s athletics, 
while the training he gets on these minor teams is of the greatest value 
to him when he comes to try for the u varsity.” 


ELECTION TO THE SOCIETIES 






























FALL AND WINTER SPORTS 


^BUT football is not the only Fall sport at Tome. 
4 £t"'\i <■"' T hose who are not playing football are on the tennis 
courts, or golf links, or perhaps cross country running, 
for which the country adjacent to the school is 
admirably suited. Soccer, basketball and gymnas¬ 
tics begin at Thanksgiving and continue through¬ 
out the Winter. Then, too, the school owns eight 



rowboats and some of the boys bring their own canoes. The river is 
nearly a mile wide here and is extremely picturesque, almost equaling 
the Hudson in scenic beauty. In January and February it usually 
affords superb skating. One can skim along for miles to the great 
Baltimore and Ohio bridge at Frenchtown, then on past the pretty 
village of Havre de Grace, and occasionally in extra cold seasons for 
miles out on the upper waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Coasting down 
the lower ravine is one of the most popular winter sports. Starting at 
the upper end of Cottage Avenue, your sled jumps off" at once, glides 
swiftly around the long curve at the head of the hollow, and then down 
the ravine at a tremendous clip, scattering a sheet of icy spray at each 
turn and bringing up finally at the lower end of the village, a coast 
of nearly a half mile. 






THE NEW CAGE 



^JNTIL this year Tome baseball men had no opportunity for pre¬ 
liminary batting practice. They had to learn to handle the stick 
during the season, only to find the schedule at an end by the time they 
had learned to pound the ball. With the advent of the new cage, 
completed in December, all this is changed. Practice begins in earnest 
as soon as the boys get back in January and as the cage is an unusually 
fine and large one, big enough to allow the batter to hit the ball as 
hard as he wants and to give the regular infield throw to first base, it 
affords fielding as well as batting practice. Beginning with this year, 
Tome nines will go into their earlier games a batting aggregation as 
heretofore they have in their later ones only. Not only batting and 
fielding but team play, signals, bunting, base running, and all the 
features of up-to-date baseball are learned during the winter. The 
coach is enabled to size up the most promising candidates, work with 
the pitchers, correct faults in batting, and get everything into shape for 
quick development as soon as warm weather has driven the frost out 
of the ground. The cage is a great thing for the track squad, also, in 
preparing for the mid-winter meets in Philadelphia, Baltimore and 
Washington. A pit has been dug for pole-vaulting, high jumping and 
broad jumping, and a place has been fixed for the shot putters. The 
sprinters practice starts and short sprints, and the hurdlers learn to 
negotiate the sticks. Our pole-vaulters and high jumpers, particularly, 
appreciate the advantage of the ground floor for winter practice under 
conditions similar to those which obtain in the spring, and for the 
hurdlers, especially the green hands, who must expect tumbles, the 
ground has an infinite advantage over the board floor of the gymnasium. 








We find, also, that the sprinters and distance men are troubled less 
than ever before with sore shins—there are no hard boards to pound 
on. Previous to this we had no place to practice broad jumping during 
the winter. Now we have a pit with a seventy-foot cinder run-way. 
Heretofore, our shot putters practiced outside during the winter and 
dared not u let themselves out” for fear of straining a tendon. Now 
they 41 put” in the cage, which is never too cold for good work. The 
hammer is the only field event that we cannot practice, but the be¬ 
ginners’ squad gets its preliminary foot-work in the cage. Once that 
is learned, the boys throw outside for form only , never putting forth 
their full strength until the spring opens. THE PYTHIAN— 
OLYMPIAN INDOOR MEET is the big athletic event of the 
winter, sandwiched as it is between the basketball games, which begin 
in December and continue until the middle of March. The cage has 
enabled us to add the short dashes, hurdles, shot put and distance runs 
to the list of events formerly scheduled for this mid-winter meet, and, 
as there are two classes in most events and three classes in the sprints, 
half of the boys in the school find chance to compete. It is a busy 
time, this winter season, for the school at large and for the athletes on 
the various teams. What with the baseball squad, the sprinters, the 
hurdlers, distance men, shot putters, high jumpers, broad jumpers and 
pole vaulters working in the cage, the basketball squad and the gym¬ 
nastic classes in the gymnasium, the soccer teams on the quadrangle, 
the coasting and skating, the inter-school basketball games with Balti¬ 
more, Philadelphia and Washington teams throughout the season, and 
the mid-winter meets, no boy need have a dull hour. 












THE SPRING SEASON 


* J^HEN comes the spring vacation, and after that the finest season 
of the year at Tome—the season when the superb landscape 
gardening of the campus is seen at its best; when the broad lawns, 
sweeping terraces, groups of spruce, fir, and pine and avenues of maple 
put forth in fresh green; when thousands of climbing roses droop in 
graceful arches and cluster in huge bouquets of color over the granite 
walls along Cottage Avenue and back of the Inn; when the air is laden 
with fragrance from great banks of honeysuckle flanking the entrance 
driveway. Then it is good to be alive, to expand your chest and drink 
in great draughts of the pure air; to row, swim, play baseball and tennis, 
swing the hammer, toss the shot, exultant in health and strength, eager 
to plunge into the teeming life that opens on every hand. In this 
season come the championship baseball games, the Pythian-Olympian 
baseball, track and tennis championships, the dual track meets with 
other schools, the trips away for the track and baseball teams, and the 
big annual Inter-Scholastic Track Meet —the crowning 
athletic event of the year—when a host of schoolboy athletes from 
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington and schools in the interior of 
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania come 
to Tome for their annual battle; when extra cars pour crowds of spec¬ 
tators on to the astonished little station in Port Deposit; when the 
special steamboat excursion from Baltimore brings its swarms; when 
other hundreds in a long line of vehicles drive in from town, hamlet, 
and country estate to swell the crowd assembled to see the stirring 
contests which continue without intermission for three hours. 


THE DIAMOND 






THE ANNUAL I N T E R S C H O L A ST I C MEET 
























THE BIG MEET 


T HE track and oval are situated on an elevated plateau which 
commands a charming view of the campus with its handsome 
buildings, of the Susquehanna River, gleaming in the sunlight, and of 
the gently rolling Harford hills beyond. The athletic field presents a 
stirring sight on the day of the Meet; the big, white dressing tents 
contrast sharply with the green of the oval, the Tome burgee flies from 
the flag pole on the ticket office, between two and three thousand 
spectators are grouped on the slope of the hill which partially encircles 
the track, and others are seen tramping across the campus from newly 
arrived trains, or driving in from the country. From the tents, athletes 
stream across the track and oval, limbering up for their events; their 
grace, activity, speed, and strength, the twenty or thirty officials, hurry¬ 
ing back and forth or standing at the finishing post, the dozen deputies 
at various parts of the grounds to preserve order and keep the track 
clear, make a pleasing spectacle and leave in the mind’s eye a picture 
which long remains. The track is one of the fastest in the country 
and has introduced to fame some of the greatest schoolboy athletes of 
the East, the most prominent of whom is Melvin Shepherd, Olympic 
champion in the 800 and 1500 metres. Shepherd still holds the half-mile 
record at Tome, made six years ago. The track, by the way, is con¬ 
structed in accordance with suggestions from Mike Murphy, the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania’s great athletic trainer and the man who, as 
every boy knows, had charge of the American athletes in the Olympic 
games at London last summer. The turns are banked slightly, dis¬ 
tributing the strain equally in fast work and enabling the runner to 
hold his footing better than on a flat turn. The straightaway is 20 
feet wide and the track is always in perfect condition on the day of 
the meet. The records are exceptionally good, as is shown by the 
following table: 100 yard dash, 10 seconds flat; 220 yard dash, 22 and 
1-5; 440 yard run, 52 and 3-5; 880 yard run, 2 minutes, 6 seconds; 
mile run, 4 minutes and 42 seconds; 120 yard hurdles, 16 and 2-5; 
220 yard hurdles, 25 and 4-5; broad jump 22 feet 3 and 1-4 inches; 
high jump, 5 feet, 11 inches; pole vault, 10 feet, 6 inches; hammer 
throw, 149 feet 9 inches; shot put, 47 feet and 4 inches. Baseball 
and track arouse about equal enthusiasm during the spring season. 
Every boy who can do anything at all is sure to be out; if he cannot 
make the school nine, he drops back into one of the society teams; if 
he cannot make the school track team, he competes in the first, second 
or third class in the Annual Pythian-Olympian Meet. 



TRACK TEAM 





















WINTER MEETS 


teams usually attend three or four mid-winter meets; particu¬ 
larly, the Georgetown University Meet, the Federal Games at 
Washington, and the Johns Hopkins University Meet at Baltimore, 
and training begins as soon as the boys return from the Christmas 
holidays. Tome has made rather remarkable records at these meets in 
the past three or four years, and when our boys, wearing the big blue 
U T” are seen limbering up on the track, spectators who keep in touch 
with athletics from year to year, sit up prepared to take notice. Seldom 
are they disappointed. Not a year has passed since Tome began at¬ 
tending these games but that has been marked by some startling per¬ 
formance by one of her fleet athletes. At the Federal Games last year 
(between 300 and 400 athletes competing) Gill, our star sprinter, 
electrified the spectators and distinguished himself by defeating Rector, 
Cartmell, and other college cracks from scratch in the invitation fifty 
yard dash. This year, with a green team of seven boys, we won 
second place among the preparatory schools and but for the failure to 
notify two of our sprinters who had won their heats in the prelim¬ 
inaries, we would have won first and captured the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania Alumni Trophy Cup. Four years ago, our relay team’s 
defeat of the celebrated Brown Prep Quartet at the Georgetown 
University Meet, the classical mid-winter athletic event of the middle 
Atlantic Coast, was the sensation of the evening. The record then 
made still stands, although the following year we ran within one second 
of it without being pushed, finishing fifty yards ahead of our competi¬ 
tor. The Washington meets are the most attractive of any we attend, 
although the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore, with its 100 yard 
straightaway and commodious dressing rooms, is infinitely better than 
Convention Hall. But, somehow, we prefer to go to Washington, 
drawn perhaps by the charm of the city itself, with its magnificent 
public buildings and its air of official dignity as the seat of the National 
Government. Unconsciously, our heads come up a bit as we walk 
its streets and inhale, with the balmy breezes which seem always to 
blow in Washington, something of the inspiration, something of the 
aspiration, something of the patriotism of which the official manifesta¬ 
tion of our country’s greatness before us, is a symbol. 



TRACK TEAM BASEBALL DIAMOND 

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SWIMMING POOL TENNIS COURTS 

























SUMMARY OF SPORTS 



OOTBALL, baseball, track, basketball and 
tennis championships with other schools. 

Minor championships in football, base¬ 
ball, track and basketball among ourselves. 
Inter-society tennis and golf championships. 
The Annual Mid-Winter Indoor Meet. 
The Annual Inter-Scholastic Field and 
Track Meet. 


ADDITIONAL RECREATIONS 


Boating, Swimming, Skating, Coasting, 
Soccer, Tramping, Cross Country Running. 


EQUIPMENT 

Gymnasium, Batting Cage, Swimming Pool, P'ootball and Base¬ 
ball Fields, Quarter Mile Cinder Track, Tennis Courts, Golf Links 
and a Fleet of Row Boats. 

Such, in brief, is an outline of the athletic activities of our boys, 
activities which extend through the entire school, from the biggest, 
oldest and best athletes, to the smaller and least experienced ones; 
which afford opportunity for pleasurable competition to all; which 
stretch in an unbroken chain of attractive events throughout the school 
year, varying the work of the classroom and developing in our boys, 
under the most favorable conditions, a plentiful supply of vigor and 
energy to serve as the physical driving force for sustained effort 
later in life. Neither photograph nor text conveys an adequate idea of 
the beautiful situation of the school, of the charm of its surroundings, 
or of the scope of its activities. At best we can give but a bird’s-eye 
view, subject to the limitations of the written page and lacking the 
color which nature alone can paint into the landscape, the sparkle and 
zest which a superb climate can infuse into the picture. 







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